TV Updates Intro for July 30, 2018 Dear Gossips, Season 6 of Orange is the New Black premiered on Netflix on Friday. Which means, as Danielle Brooks said late last year, “…we’re closer to the end than we are to the beginning”. Seasons 5, 6, and 7 were greenlit at the same time. There’s been By Lainey • Jul 30, 2018 09:29 am
Books Malia in Paris Malia Obama turned 20 on July 4th. It’s fitting that one of the only first daughters I recognise was born on Independence Day. It may not have been a birthday celebration but Malia Obama was photographed living her best life in Paris on Sunday, strolling around with her boyfriend By Kathleen • Jul 18, 2018 10:07 am
Books Intro for June 29, 2018 Dear Gossips, Canada Day is on Sunday so it’s a long weekend here in Canada which means we will be dark on Monday and back to regular gossip schedule on Tuesday. Long weekend or not, here are some weekend recommendations other than Drake – we’ll get to Drake, eventually, By Lainey • Jun 29, 2018 10:02 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Intro for June 22, 2018 Dear Gossips, If you’ve been visiting this blog regularly over the last 15 years, maybe you’re tired of me evangelising about YA books. I’m not sorry about this. My favourite book, period, of 2017 was Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give. One of my favourite books By Lainey • Jun 22, 2018 09:33 am
Books Intro for May 23, 2018 Dear Gossips, Chances are, you’ve read a book by Marian Keyes. Rachel’s Holiday? Sushi for Beginners? We interviewed Marian last year on The Social when she was promoting her most recent novel, The Break. The Break, and all of Marian’s books, are classified as “chick lit”, a By Lainey • May 23, 2018 10:15 am
Books Reese Witherspoon’s Whiskey in a Teacup I will never knock Reese Witherspoon’s business acumen or hustle – her pivot from lukewarm rom-coms (they seriously don’t make them like they used to) to multimedia producer, actress, and dealmaker has been a resounding success. And with that, Reese has broadened her spectrum outside of Hollywood, supporting #TimesUp, By Maria • May 01, 2018 10:19 am
Maple Leaf Intro for April 24, 2018 Dear Gossips, The Warner Bros presentation at CinemaCon is scheduled for today. And I’m hoping that that’s why the Crazy Rich Asians trailer was released yesterday – because the studio is, presumably, beginning to build the hype around the movie in front of theatre owners ahead of its August By Lainey • Apr 24, 2018 09:21 am
Books The Philosophy of Kanye West Kanye West is writing a book of philosophy. In conversation with interior designer Axel Vervoordt for Pret-a-Reporter, Kanye revealed that he’s working on a book called Break The Simulation. Of course, he is. The same day, Kanye West reactivated his Twitter account. That was not a coincidence. This is By Kathleen • Apr 18, 2018 10:08 am
Style Amal Clooney covers Vogue Amal Clooney is writing a book. This is mentioned in her Vogue cover story, released today: For the past couple of years, Clooney has been writing a book with Philippa Webb, her Hague officemate, now on the faculty of King’s College London. The book is called The Right to By Lainey • Apr 10, 2018 03:39 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews KJ Apa in The Hate U Give Last year, Lainey and I yelled at you many times to read The Hate U Give. I’m not going to yell at you again because by now, I expect that you’ve done your homework. If you haven’t, you have until the film adaptation hits theatres to get By Kathleen • Apr 04, 2018 02:56 pm
Dumbass Intro for March 28, 2018 Dear Gossips, “There is pride to be had where the prejudicial is practiced with precision in the trenchant triage of tactile terminations.” Remind me, if I ever forget, to never alliterate again. That sentence, if you want to call it a sentence, is from Sean Penn’s new book Bob By Lainey • Mar 28, 2018 08:56 am
Douchebags Sean Penn does not collaborate Sean Penn is promoting his book, Bob Honey Who Just Do Stuff. It’s a stupid-ass title. I can’t tell you if it’s a stupid-ass book but I don’t think it’s winning any awards and it’s because Sean Penn is a dick…but not, necessarily, By Lainey • Mar 27, 2018 04:43 pm
Books Intro for March 21, 2018 Dear Gossips, Last night I hosted the first #AudibleBookClub in Canada featuring Rachael Allen’s book A Taxonomy Of Love. Rachael came in from Atlanta to join us and one of the biggest highlights of the night, for me, was introducing Rachael to Sahara, 16, a big fan of young By Lainey • Mar 21, 2018 09:00 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Lupita’s new ABP role Every actor in Black Panther (except for maybe living legends Angela Bassett and Forest Whitaker) can look at their careers in two parts: BBP and ABP, as in Before Black Panther and After Black Panther. Sure, Chadwick Boseman, Lupita Nyong’o, Danai Gurira, Daniel Kaluuya and my man Michael B. By Kathleen • Feb 23, 2018 01:24 pm
Books Intro for December 1, 2017 Dear Gossips, The NY Film Critics Circle announced their selections for the best of 2017 yesterday. And guess who just stomped into the awards race? TIFFANY HADDISH! Tiffany was named Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Girls Trip even though the NYFCC was big on Lady Bird. Lady Bird By Lainey • Dec 01, 2017 08:27 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Alamak! CRA covers EW! I cried a little when I saw this on Instagram yesterday – the cover of the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, featuring Constance Wu and Henry Golding, the stars of Crazy Rich Asians, based on the first book in Kevin Kwan’s bestselling series. You know, the one I’ve been By Lainey • Nov 03, 2017 01:23 pm
